Biggin Derbyshire Family History Guide

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Biggin is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1848 from Hartington Ancient Parish. 

Other places in the parish include: Hartington Nether Quarter.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1848
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1848

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BIGGIN, a township and a chapelry in Ashborne district, Derby.

The township is in Wirksworth parish; and lies near the Cromford and High Park railway, 7½ miles SW of Bakewell r. station.

Acres, 595. Real property, £1,153. Pop., 133. Houses, 28.

The chapelry was constituted in 1848. Post Town, Ashborne. Pop., 399. Houses, 84.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value £40. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The church is modern.

There are two Primitive Methodist chapels and a national school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Census

Census returns for Biggin, 1841-1891

Church Records

Bishop’s transcripts for Biggin, 1848-1967 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Biggin (Derbyshire)

England, Derbyshire, Biggin, parish registers, 1848-2003 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Biggin (Derbyshire); Derbyshire Record Office

Parish registers for Biggin, 1848-1901 Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Biggin (Derbyshire)

Computer printout of Biggin, Derby., Eng

Parish register printouts of Biggin, Derbyshire, England ; christenings, 1848-1859 Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Cemeteries

A transcript of the memorial inscriptions in the church & churchyard of St. Thomas in the parish of Biggin by Hartington and the county of Derby Author: Derbyshire Family History Society

Schools

England, Derbyshire, Biggin, Biggin by Hartington Primary School, admission register, 1897-1949 Author: Derbyshire Record Office

Administration

  • County: Derbyshire
  • Civil Registration District: Ashbourne
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Hartington
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Buxton
  • Poor Law Union: Ashbourne
  • Hundred: Wirksworth
  • Province: Canterbury